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The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian By Sherman Alexie

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Society and all it comes with Society in today’s day and age impacts and affects everyone’s life. In the novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” written by Sherman Alexie, those impacts and effects are prevalent. The protagonist Arnold Spirit also known as Junior is very much affected physically and emotionally by the struggles society has faced him with. Throughout the novel Junior faces these problems society has created for him, and the impacts they leave on his life. Those impacts can affect people’s social class, standard of life, education, and even communities. Society also has the same effect on my life as it does Junior’s life in the novel. It not only affects the way we live, but our thoughts, actions and futures. …show more content…

My parents are considered to be “middle class” and for my 19 years of life that has been the lifestyle I have lived. On the other hand, Junior’s family in the novel has been labeled poor and lives in poverty on the reservation. In the book Junior states “My parents came from poor people who came from poor people, who came from poor people, all the way back to the very first poor people” (Alexie 11). These social classes society places us in effect out life each and every day. They put rules on things we can and can’t have, and also impose limitations on our lives Although, it is two completely different social classes, they have the same effect on our lives and the life we will live in the

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